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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements - Sixth Edition

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements - Sixth Edition

By: Robin Nichols

Overview of this book

Dive into the world of digital photo editing with this latest edition, crafted by a seasoned photographer and digital imaging expert, and harness the full potential of the latest Photoshop Elements 2024. With a unique blend of in-depth tutorials and practical applications, this book is an essential resource for photographers at all levels. Alongside introducing new features like Dark Mode, Match Color, and Photo Reels, as well as advanced techniques like layering and artistic effects, this book addresses common user feedback from previous editions, ensuring a refined and user-friendly experience. With the help of this guide, you’ll learn how to leverage AI to stitch widescreen panoramas, remove people from backgrounds, defocus backgrounds, recompose images, and even create a range of calendars and greeting cards for your friends and family. You’ll take your prowess to the next level by learning how to correct optical distortion, reshape images, exploit layers, layer masking, and get to grips with sharpening techniques to create the perfect picture or imaginative fantasy illustration. The online realms of animation, video creation, and third-party plugins will also be covered. By the end of this book, you'll know how to leverage the incredible features of Photoshop Elements 2024 with complete confidence.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Image Modes

It's a feature found in all photo-editing applications but one that rarely gets a mention. Most photographers work in RGB mode (Red, Green and Blue) - the color mode used by both the camera and the computer monitor. Professionals working in print, using Photoshop, will inevitably work in CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) mode. We don't have this in Elements.

Most photographers will only ever use RGB mode, but occasionally might encounter a file that doesn't edit properly, so it pays to check its mode status. Choose Image>Mode>RGB Color (menu on the left) to convert it to a full-color file, or if it's a 12 or 14-bit file, choose the 8-bit conversion option. Elements does not work with anything higher than 8-bit files. Other modes under the Image>Mode menu include Grayscale, Indexed Color..., and Bitmap....

Grayscale: RGB files have three color channels, while grayscale has one: grey. When you convert from RGB to Grayscale...